Surrealism Hijacked! Shame on the LA Times

I wake up this morning, squeeze a little coffee onto a toothbrush, brew up some Colgate, and put it in a mug for Dan, and then I e-zip on over to the LA Times online. And what do I find there? BLATANT THIEVERY!! MISAPPROPRIATON OF SURREALISM!! And the FAILURE TO GIVE PROPER CREDIT WHERE DUE!!!

What am I so mad about? I'll tell you (although, admittedly, it would be far more Surreal to not tell you...):

As many of you saw, the other day the Internet Movie Database prominently featured a link to our previous blog posting Let Hollywood Be Your Super Tuesday Guide (thank you, btw), in which Dan and I used movies and TV shows to predict the future efficacy of either our nation’s first Black or female president. Thousands of people read our blog – we have the stats from Google Analytics to prove it.

And then this morning, a full six days after our original post, the Los Angeles Times has the effrontery to blatantly rip us off without even sticking a picture of Rene Magritte in the article to throw us a bone. They ran a piece called Real Lessons from Fake Presidents, in which they used the exact same premise as our blog, except across racial, gender, and genre lines. They even used the same movies and TV shows we did (including 24, Deep Impact, and Commander in Chief), and made the same Geena Davis joke. As if that weren’t bad enough, they promised zombies in the tease, and then DID NOT DELIVER ZOMBIES.

You don’t have to take our word for it, though. You can read the article here.

First The Onion, and now this. Rest assured, notice will be paid.

Vince out (grrr).